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A51971 The perfect horseman, or, The experienced secrets of Mr. Markham's fifty years practice shewing how a man may come to be a general horseman, by the knowledge of these seven offices, viz. the breeder, feeder, ambler, rider, keeper, buyer, farrier / and now published by Lancelot Thetford, practitioner in the same art for the space of forty years. Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.; Thetford, Lancelot. 1656 (1656) Wing M671; ESTC R20972 71,548 192

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